Les Quatre Éléments (The Four Elements) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1780

Probably after Jean Jacques Lagrenée le Jeune (French, 1739–1821) from engravings by Charles Dupuis (French, 1685–1742) and Louis Desplaces (French, 1682–1739) after Louis de Boullongne le Jeune (French, 1654–1733)
Manufactured by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (naturalized French, 1738-1815), Oberkampf Manufactory (French, 1760-1843)
Jouy-en-Josas, France

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Louis de Boullongne, the younger , Jean-Jacques Lagrenée , Louis Desplaces (Engraver) , Oberkampf Manufactory (Manufacturer) , Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (Producer)
Title: Les Quatre Éléments (The Four Elements) (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: Jouy-en-Josas (Object made in), France (Object made in)
Date: Made 1780-1790
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Dimensions: 64 × 68.3 cm (25 1/4 × 26 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Martha Borland Willis in memory of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 1981.54
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Starr Siegele, Toiles for All Seasons: French & English Printed Textiles (Boston: Bunker Hill Publishing with Allentown Art Museum, 2004), 57, no. 60 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Engraved Imagery: Literary Subjects on Cloth, Feb. 22–May 14, 1995, brochure.

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